Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-02-12
IN TIE OZARK REGION.
where Deer, Bear. Panther, wild Turkeys. Quail and Rabbits Thrive.

Aegs 0uail and Rabbits Thrive.
 | wish that some of you fellows who like
 70 talk about the sport you have hunting here ih the cold east could just pack up your uaIs about now and go back with me to a country that chap can live In with pleas ure and comfort while the gales and snow anu frost of this Atlantic climate are getting their woff in to the best kind of advan- taSei said Chip" Macguire of Spring heldi Mo, the other night. Game is d.
 Nhys plenty in southern Missouri" !" said he,
 put this year it seeuls tO havo outdOne it. shi In abundance. I came over the old
 Aansa- City, Fort Scott and Gulf railroad, hhd although that was early in the season TOT The birds to bo making themselves con splclOus, I'll bot that I counted a hundred nocss of wild turkeys. and there wasn't Q h"cs out Of which l couldn't have shot one or more Of the splendid birds from my win dow in the car. The railroad in one place runs on trestles over a swamp for several miles, and in the extensive ponds and bayOus "i that wild stretch of country thousands upon thousands of wild ducks and zeese of
 Al varieties were feeling. some of the water Oeing covered for acres with the fowl, until their groups looked like islands in the lake-. lhesc fow! seemed Co De so used to the noise oi the traiDs thst did not see one move iis position through being startled by the CArs in all thGt distance
 Ihe day bsforo left Springfield saw a oushwhnckCr come into town with a rnulo te,1m load of deer carcasses of the finest kind bought one simply Co obtain the magnili- cent head and antlcrs and all paid for the whole business was S32J. There were ct leas, SJ pounds of the best venison included in the purchase. You could not got that bsnd and the-s horns here Cor less than Si5. Among the other large game reported plenty and waiting for the hunter k bear. Ths gentle creature more particularly affects the junglEs and swamIs of northern Arkml- sls, and fl an unsuspectins sportsman is going into the7.s parts hs will have tO keep his eyes skinned to find thoroUghfarCs un- olstr1lcte-i by bruin. The lynx, and now and then that relic of tle days when the country belonged Co two-legseI as well as E5ur footed sayagcs, tho Amerrian panther, still hold a land tenure in that garden spot of tho southwest, and am told, greet yisitors after the manner of their kind never daily vith game of this kind, but know men Wilo dO and what they SSy may he depended on
 T went out for rabbit hunt few days l a T ping over them. That Is no eIaggeiatioI, | for I give you my worl that they jumped 1 out from evUry bunch Of brush and leavez | that lay in your path. After hasging al l l could carry ~cnt to shooting quail for . | friend who was with me to bring back home I These birds actually paid no attention to the gun at all, but the locks I shot ints kept right ou feeding Gs if nothing had hap | pened, and rather objected to my picking up | the ones I had shot. We speak of gray and I black squirrels out there as you might refeT | to sparroWs here, for they take possessiCn | of towns and villages in about the sane way. The beauty Of it all is that the later ths s,as0n grows tho better the weather gets, and any of you fellows can come Out there New Years 0nd strike 1t right and spend the remainder of the winter in clover. You won't bS apt to See much snow. The Ozark region is tl.e greatest country I know of, and the water out there Is immense. II you want tu have good hunt come out and -ss me, and leave an your mg,iicins .. home New York Sun